C. S. Lewis Quotes
God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Maybe it would be best for me to finish at 599. People seem to like you better when you finish just short.
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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
